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Timeline of states of matter and phase transitions
Timeline of states of matter and phase transitions
- 1895 - Pierre Curie discovers that induced magnetization is proportional to magnetic field strength
- 1911 - Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity
- 1912 - Pieter Debye[?] derives the T-cubed law for the low temperature heat capacity of a nonmetallic solid
- 1925 - Ernst Ising[?] presents the solution to the one-dimensional Ising model and models ferromagnetism as a cooperative spin phenomenon
- 1933 - Walter Meissner[?] and R. Ochsenfeld[?] discover perfect superconducting diamagnetism
- 1942 - Hannes Alfven[?] predicts magnetohydrodynamic waves in plasmas
- 1944 - Lars Onsager publishes the exact solution to the two-dimensional Ising model
- 1957 - John Bardeen, Leon Cooper[?], and Robert Schrieffer[?] develop the BCS theory of superconductivity
- 1958 - Rudolf Mossbauer[?] finds the Mossbauer crystal recoil effect
- 1972 - Douglas Osheroff[?], Robert Richardson[?], and David Lee[?] discover that helium-3 can become a superfluid
- 1974 - Kenneth Wilson[?] develops the renormalization group technique for treating phase transitions
- 1987 - Alex Muller[?] and Georg Bednorz[?] discover high critical temperature ceramic superconductors
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